National Republican., 1887-02-05
THE WALL STREET MASCOT.
AN OPP RAT0R ATTRACTS so MUG Gus
TOM THAT NEIGHBORs COMPLAIN.
Making a Lucky Hit on New Line of
business The Entrance. stairwavs,
and Passageways Crowded with Peo-
pie Trying to Get Into the specula-
tors Offioe-saving Lives and Curing
Ills.
[FRoM THE NEW YonK wonLp. JAN. 3d.

hctpi tht OpeIdtOT, are TOT
long time he has occupied one third Of that
large building as the publication aud editorial
departments of his Val Strcd Daily Noes and
for his private Office, where he studies the mar.
ket and consults with the bulls or BEARS as
the case may be, who toss up the quotations or
pull them down. There has always been
plenty of life and hustle about the place. be-
cause the stock journal has grown TO be power
and Its owner is no Insignificant factor in deals
and big stock transactions. Either Of these
causes would make things lively there. But
the week just closed has made II unusually so.
Crowds Of people have swarmed at the outer
entrance, in the passsgeways, blocked the
stairways, and jammed themselves Into his
private Office. And for what? That is just the
question that has been asked a thousand times
II II has once by the busy people OF the street
whose business has taken them into that 10.
cality. Some have imagined from the presence
OF so many bears in the throDg that there was
TO be abig slump In the market again, Just as
the market went all to pieces, as Mr..
Keep. predicted 1t would, because pso.
pie had loaded themselves down With
too great burden OF stocks. He has Kept in.
sistlng that the same thing was going to hap
pen again, by reason of a decline in Pacific
railroad stocks, that he maintains must follow
the Hodds eXptsur OF the methods of the
mBgnGtes who control those monopolies aud
are keeping the government out of its just
dues. Ii is not to consult an oracle, though,
that so many hundreds and even thousands OF
people have swarmed to Mr.. Keeps Office A
1IoHd reporter who went down to no. 40 to fiud
out what was up got an entirely different ex.
PLANTATION. But the information he obtained
yUsI was not by any mean means easily procured. The
take his turn in long line that moved pro.
cession like UP the staircase and along the
hail, with the right resting at the peep hole,
like bank cashiers windoy, In the private
office. Tint was the only way he could get in
there, for. as was afterward learned, he was
one, with sos others; who tried it tina. day;
pen? Why. Is everybody here7" inquired the
reporter OF Mr.. Keep, who hustled out of the
inner office and rushed about IN so lively n
manner that 1t was mistru.ted he was going
to ring for policeman to clear ou. the crowd.
preferred, S3; knewit would have to come"
commented Mr.. Keep, reading from the tape
"what would have to come, this Jam out
side y asked the reporter, interruptirg the
| soliloquy.
"oh, hello How are you? You're wonder
| me tell you the World did this Come in and
I'll tell you about II in few words: can't spare
| but few minutes, business is TOO brisk, but
| know you'll excuse me, now won't you?'
This was the way he rambled on, as II he was
| hurrying to catch tue last boat of the day to
| somewhere or other.
fishing out from pile OF letters ald telegrams
on his desk a copy OF last Sundays World an
| pointing to an article headed, "a Wall Street
| Samaritan" Then he went on: "a World re-
| porter came down here n week ago to see about
report that had thrown over nv paper and
| stock speculatipg to go Into the patent medi-
cine business. told him about how was cured
| OF frightful cough down at Elberou last sum-
| mer by usiug some troches called ka-ran, that
the conductor en- train gave me through sym.
| patby for my distress. / explained that had
| beer bothered by people running to me after
returned to the city 70 get this remedy when
| its wonderful properties became noise about
by my friends to whom had given samples.
| Everybody who used the troches for coughs,
| colds, throat and lung diseases was cured aud
more than two hundred tests in such complaints
| were made without single failure. 1t got TO
| be too much bother to play the Good Simari-
tan, and took up the remedies Just as would
| a good line of stocks got control Of them. and
commenced selling Karen troches and cough
told all that, aud also said the remedies could
| be obtained here. Behold the result"
| "Well you don't mean TO say that all these
people have come here to buy patent medi.
"Yes, but do; that's Just what brings them"
| YVES the response. 1.-THE magical effect of the
remedies has been common talk down here in
| the street for several months But only a few
| people knew where they could get them until
| 1t was announced In the paper that ha |
opened special 1epartment for their sale here
in my office. 1t Is remarkable how fas. such
| information travels. and how many thousands
ofpeople seem to have read that article.
WHY, last Sunday the very day It was pub.
| W
| midday Mr.. Philip g. Weaver came in. He is
| one of the old ana best known merchants who
retired some time ago, AMI resides at No l5i
| West FOrty.siNth street. He had read the story
| in the World, but hunted me up to see where
he could get some of the troches that night.
He could hardly art'cnlate,, and had been that
was racked with pain. The article state th 1t
| the troches could be bought of soma druggists.
| but mentioned no names. Knowing there
would be no one at my office on Sunday he
had hunted me up to find out where trochei
could be obialned. / directed him to Caswell
4 Massey's, Just across from the hotel, and Mr..
| Weaver bought some of the troches and the
halsam. Tuesday night he came over to the
Windsor again and thanked me for heioing
him get the Iemsdy and complimented
able thing. He said that on Monday his voice
commenced to get stronger, and the next day
he DIDN'T have a trace OF pain. That was re-
markable, wasn't it, considering that only two
and he didn't see how 1t could be STAYED off!
Mr.. Weaver was so delighted that he asked his
brother-in law, Mr.. Roswell G. Hazard. presi-
dent of the Trust Company, who is a partner
in Caswell d Hazard, why he did not keep the
remedies in hia drug store In the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. So much was said by Mr.: Weaver that
the firm sent an order down here and has
THAT is the way with all the druggists who
keep them; they say there never was anything
like the way this takes hold. The best OF 1t al
is that the remedies afford immediate relief, SC
that people know just what they viii do right
away. Such things as this are talked about a
good deal, especially at this time of the year
when people are subject to colds and throa
and lung troubles. 1t surprising how fast the
druggists exhaust their orders and come back
| Tor more of the remedies.
"a lady came here about ten days ago and
bought some troches, as she had ba cold
She was cured right away, and thought so wei!
| also the cough balsam to zee what effect the
remedies wonld have on her sister. who had O
hacking cough incident to the first stages Of
consumption To-day she came anne around again
and the halsam was going to be kept up to see
If her sister couldn't be cured. of course
where consumption gets a start II Is almost i'm
found so much relief that her family have
hopes of doing oven more than afiording tenn
porary improvement.
intimate friend of the late william IL. Wander
lilt. on Thursday night, in the Windsor. Mr.
Il. Il. Cable, president Of the Chicago, Ro3l
Island and Pacific railroad, came over TO where
we were sitting TO see what was going on. lie
had just GOT in, and wanted 10 talk with mC
about the effect Of the interstate commerc,
bill. ] had just commenced telling him that
thought the effect OF the Worlds exposure o
The Pacific railroads would end in knocking
the mDrket into cooked hat, when Clswel
intcriI cted the remark
"'You viii lind Charlie Keep grsa, deal
more willing to talk Karen than about the
"Hsve you got those medicines Mr.. Cable
Il told him that had taken hold of then
and was trying to bring them into public no
tlce. rs regarded II as Il benefit to the public
to know Just what remarkable things could bt
accomplished with them.
"'Well, Or. Caswcll,' said Mr. Cable, there
isn't anything 10 laugh abolt. avn sure. Two
months ago when ! was here had a good
deal of apprehension about the condition o
my throat. / was going around to DR.. Ran
ney's in Forty-siXth street 10 have my throat
sprayed for the trouble When happened d
meet Keep, and told him about II, He rro,
cured some Karen trorhes for me- and they
effected complete cure. Ono thing | had
made up my mind to do on this visit, and tn 1t
was TO see If he wouldn't let me have some
more. because they did me so much good
THAT is the same sort OF experience every
body has who has tried the remedies. Orders